Godliness With Contentment

-May 28, 2024-

Good morning beloved, happy Tuesday,

“Now godliness with contentment is great gain.”

(1 Timothy 6:6).

No believer, young or old is immune to greed. The world bombards us daily to buy what we don’t need with money we don’t have to be happy with things that don’t satisfy.

What is the answer to this nonsensical cycle of greed? Paul gives the answer: be content with what we have. As long as godliness is combined with contentment it is great gain.

God provides for us and meets our needs. 1 Timothy 6:7-8 says, “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, we these we shall be content.”

When we start lusting for things, it is a bad sign, and has no end. It causes even more problems in our walk with the Lord. The poor strive to be rich, and the rich strive to be richer. We shouldn’t live for money, but just use money to live.

The great Apostle Paul himself needed to learn this lesson on contentment. He wrote in Philippians 4:11-12, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content. I know how to be abased, and how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.”

Being content in a discontented world isn’t easy, on the contrary it is only possible by the power of the Holy Spirit. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”

May the Lord help us to be content with what we have. It doesn’t mean we should take a vow of poverty and not buy anything. It means to grasp things lightly for we just have them for a short while. We have to replace things, upgrade our homes, eat, live, and do business. We should thank the Lord for everything He has given us and live within our means.

Have a blessed day with contentment. Stay safe and healthy.

Someone said, “I had no shoes and complained until I met a man with no feet.”

Dean